Freight trains at Milano Certosa Station

There are many freight trains that pass through Milano Certosa Station, which surprised a bit who is in the station, as expects the passage of trains for travelers.
Milano Certosa Station is indeed a place of rail strategic importance as it links all the west railways of Milan, with those at north and east of the city and that cross it from Milan Porta Garibaldi, so any train to and from the west Milan moves from Milano Certosa, as well as all goods by rail.
The belt line of Milan that goes around in Milan is crossed at Bivio Musocco shortly after the train beyond the bridge of Via Palizzi towards Milan.

Freight trains are loud, long, sometimes extremely long, of different shapes, also unequal between cars of the same train, colorful without a single style, from tank wagons to wagons for the transport of vehicles, to the classical container. Often the wagons have advertising written of the company that runs the transport.

Freight trains pass along the six tracks of the station, it is a pleasure to see them go, some even at speed, more slowly, so slowly that their length is dilated and the noise never seems to end.

I have seen go to Milano Certosa Station freight trains Crossrail, NordCargo, Trenitalia Cargo, Hupac.


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High-speed trains to Milano Certosa Station

The high-speed trains, trains that exceed the two hundred kilometers an hour, are an example of a country and of industrial companies are able to develop advanced technology, technology in different sectors, I can think of, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, computing, and other for trains and construction for high-speed rail network needed because trains can really reach the speed for which they were designed.
Trains traveling at these speeds become commercially competitive with air transport even on long distances, often at lower cost and lower pollution.
The high-speed trains as well as for their speed are often valuable for the design of the drive train and of the wagons, both in shapes, highly aerodynamic, which in style with which they are decorated, liveries that identify the train itself.

For those who attended Milano Certosa Station, as commuter or occasional traveler, gives pleasure, excitement, distraction from waiting train and probably pride, see these trains pass through the station, most of the time at high speed.
The colors, the shape, the speed, the hiss of these machines of the technique remain impressed, such as security they move through in station, announced by loudspeaker.
If anyone has some free time and living in the area may spend hours or days to see the trains pass by, especially those at high speed, he will return home happy.

The high-speed trains pass at Milano Certosa mainly along the first two train tracks, tracks that are part of the railroad Milan Centrale - Rho at Km. 8,526, the minority along the tracks 3 and 4 part of the railway Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho just before km. 5.
The section of the railway along the Milan Certosa station is not a high-speed railway, the high-speed railway begins shortly after the station in the direction of Rho.
The tracks 1 and 3 are traveled by trains heading east, to Milan, the tracks 2 and 4 westbound, out of Milan.
Very often it is the passage of the high-speed train in the station.
The stop of the Milan Passante railway at Milano Certosa Station is on track 5 and 6, so who takes the train is far from the high-speed trains.

The high-speed trains that pass the station are all beautiful, different, but fascinating, not all pass at great speed and as said run, exceptions apart, along the tracks 1 and 2.
Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) for FS Trenitalia line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova speeds at high speed with its unique shape and bright red livery.
Frecciarossa line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho reduces running or stops at the station waiting for the green signal to make the change of line going from Milan Centrale - Rho to Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho (or in the opposite direction) few meters after the Milano Certosa station in the direction of Milan, making the deviant.
Frecciabianca (White Arrow) line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova beautiful in its red and white livery less aerodynamic than brother Frecciarossa runs fast to and from Milan Central.
Italo for New Passengers Transport (in Italian, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) with its burgundy color scheme for the Milan Porta Garibaldi - Porta Susa as Frecciarossa of the same line reduces running and changing railway shortly after the station.
EuroCity train for Swiss railway SBB CFF FFS for the Milan Central - Simplon Tunnel - Basel has a red white livery, wagon with large windows, a locomotive overbearing, and goes fast to Milano Centrale as mentioned on the track 1 and from Milan Central on track 2.
TGV for SNCF line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare de Lyon with its distinctive snout and its flat shape, in the same way Frecciarossa and Italo from or to Milan Porta Garibaldi that changing line after the station, must slow the train ride. Some TGV instead pass at high speed on the tracks 3 and 4 without changing line.


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Trains to Milano Certosa Station

In Milano Certosa Station pass trains of several lines, the station is indeed along the railway lines Milan Central - Rho and Milano Porta Garibaldi - Rho in addition to that one of Milan Passante railway of which is stop and west terminal. A few hundred meters after the station in the direction of Milan at Bivio Musocco there is Milan belt railway, and towards Rho instead there is the large maintenance facility and train depot Milan Fiorenza.

The tracks 1 and 2 of Milan Certosa station are located at kilometer 8 + 526 of the railway Milan Centrale - Rho, tracks 3 and 4 are just before the fifth kilometer of the railway Milano Porta Garibaldi - Rho, tracks 5 and 6 are at Km 13 + 316 of Milan Passante railway of which is stop and end, whose Km. 0 is Bivio Lambro and that after the station becomes line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho, track 7 is service.
Tracks 1, 3 and 5 are routes to the east, towards Milan, tracks 2, 4 and 6 to the west, out of Milan, the rail 7 in both directions.

In station run high-speed trains along the first 4 tracks mainly along the first two, freight trains along the first six tracks but with greater frequency along the first four, the trains of the regional lines (R) in tracks 3, 4, 5 and 6, fast regional trains (In Italian, Regionali Veloci RV) along the first four tracks, and trains of Passante railway, suburban lines S, at tracks 5 and 6, where thet stop, the track 7 pass or stop, depending on the requirement, some trains before mentioned.

High-speed trains FS Trenitalia Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova and line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho go by tracks 1 and 2, those of the first line rushing at high speed, Frecciarossa of the second line slow running or stop at the station waiting for the green signal to make the change of line going from Milan Centrale - Rho to Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho few meters after station in the direction of Milan (or in the opposite direction), making the deviant.
Pass along the first two tracks also the high-speed train Italo for New Passengers Transport (in Italian, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) with its burgundy color scheme for Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa and SNCF TGV line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare de Lyon that in the same way of Frecciarossa to Milan Porta Garibaldi change line, slowing or stopping the running in station.
Some TGV pass at high speed on the tracks 3 and 4 without changing line.
Along the first two tracks pass at fast speed high-speed trains Trenitalia Frecciabianca (White Arrow) line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova and Swiss railways SBB CFF FFS EuroCity for line Milan Central - Simplon Tunnel - Basel both have a white red livery.
Very frequent is the passage of high-speed trains.

Fast regional trains Trenitalia for line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova with carriages decorated by images of the city of Turin on the classic XMPR livery and for Milan Centrale - Domodossola pass quickly on the first two tracks.

The regional train lines Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Varese, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Arona, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Luino go by at the station mainly on the tracks 3 and 4, sometimes 5 and 6. Trains are modern double-decker trains of Trenord as Vivalto and Treno Alta Frequentazione, with drive classified as Ale 506, others older.

Freight trains pass through along all tracks of the station depending on the route and the availability of the rail network, often routed along Milan railway belt that is crossed a few hundred meters after the station towards Milan at Bivio Musocco and which allows to get all the lines of Milan.
I saw go by freight trains NordCargo, Hupac, CrossRail.

Some empty trains circulating in the station are to and from the train depot and maintenance facility in Milan Fiorenza, such as, among others, night trains of Trenitalia.

The trains of Milan Passante railway, Suburban lines S5 and S6, stop to track 5 and 6, at track 5 originate trains S5 from Varese and S6 from Novara headed to the city and to Treviglio and at platform 6 trains of the same lines out of Milan, sometimes the ride is limited to Pioltello-Limito for Novara trains.
The trains in circulation are modern double-decker Treno Servizio Regionale (Regional Service Train, TSR) evolution of Treno Alta Frequentazione (High Attendance Train, TAF) of Trenord.
The cadence of these trains is every half an hour each way.


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Track 6 of Milano Certosa Station

Track 6 of Milano Certosa Station is the railroad track on exit from Milan of Milan Passante railway of which the railway station is far west at Km 13 + 316.

The platform is equipped by benches, information panels and monitors on the trains arrival, it's covered and located along Via Triboniano.
Here stop modern double-decker Treno Servizio Regionale (Regional Service Train, TSR) evolution of Treno Alta Frequentazione (High Attendance Train, TAF) of Trenord, suburban lines S5 and S6 for Varese and Novara from Treviglio, running every 30 minutes each way.
On the track 6 pass sometimes any freight trains and regional trains that do not stop at the station.

The train stop is very frequented by local residents, Quarto Oggiaro, Musocco, Quartiere Varesina, Garegnano that use the railway as an alternative to public transport ATM return from Milan and commuters of west Milan.

Track 6 of Milano Certosa Station is my place of arrival, close to home, for travel to lakes, mountains and hills, from Lecco's mountains and Lecco from Passante railway station Milan Repubblica when I arrive at the Central station, or even from Milano Porta Garibaldi if I have taken the local train, from Milano Porta Garibaldi when my destination is Brianza until arriving to Lecco, or Canton Ticino.
Sometimes I use Milan Passante railway returning from Milan avoiding the slowness of tram 12 and 14 from the city center, via Milan Porta Venezia or Milan Porta Garibaldi, or from Milan Porta Garibaldi station coming from Corso Garibaldi and Corso Como.
Platform 6 was, for years, even my starting point towards Varese and around Varese up to lake of Lugano and Lake Maggiore, I remember with pleasure the World Championship Cycling 2008 in Varese, time trial and race in line male.

Leaving the train, taking the last carriages, a few meters lead me to Via Varesina underpass, the head coaches are nearest the underpass of Via Mambretti Via Triboniano.


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Track 5 of Milano Certosa Station

Track 5, or platform 5 as you call it, is the point of departure towards Milan from Milano Certosa Station, is located in fact along Milan Passante railway which the station is the terminal west at Km 13 + 316.
Track 5 is long 350 meters, it is reached by the two subways station.

At track 5 of Milano Certosa Station stop trains of suburban lines S5 and S6 coming from Varese and Novara with frequency every 30 minutes for each line, currently the cadence starts at 03 of each hour for the line S6 from Novara and 18 for the line S5 from Varese, the service is carried out are modern double-decker Treno Servizio Regionale (Regional Service Train, TSR) evolution of Treno Alta Frequentazione (High Attendance Train, TAF) of Trenord.
On the track pass sometimes any freight trains and regional trains that do not stop at the station.

The platform 5, like the other in the station, has a V-cover with glass sheets, while the part of the track is outdoor.
It is equipped by panels with clock, time of the next train, any delay and flat monitors that inform travelers on arrival of the trains of the entire station, it has metal benches and garbage cans with recycling, but no ticket validation machine.

The track 5 is the point of reference for all the inhabitants of the north-west of Milan whose use public transport to Milan direction, area not served by the subway.
It is also for me, the starting point for any trip to Milan often descending to Milano Porta Garibaldi looking for postcards or to the city center, or travel excursion for mountains, lakes, hill in directions to Lecco or Chiasso, exchanging trains to Milan Porta Garibaldi or Milano Centrale walking along the stretch from the Passante railway station Milan Repubblica to Milan Central Station, about 10 minutes.

Track 5 is always in my thoughts because even I use trains with some frequency, a couple of times a week, in the morning or after lunch between 13:30 and 13:45.
I remember, arriving at track almost always in a hurry or a rush from the underpass of Via Varesina, waits on the platform looking positive signals of the train arrival, checking the information boards at the top, listening to loudspeakers that anticipate the arrival of the train, my peep over the bridge of Interchange hoping to see it come out to the right in distance, he glances toward the other travelers on platform. And when the train is finally near the two small lights on the panel that light up intermittently and the lights of the train approaching slowly to the Passante railway stop.
When the train instead is delayed, the nervousness growing at the increasing of minutes late up to curse Railways, Trenord, the train, the railway network and its staff, lately, I must say and I would not that saying tomorrow they deny me, the trains are more punctual than once.


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Tracks 1 and 2 of Milano Certosa Station

Along the railroad tracks 1 and 2 of Milano Certosa Station, railway station of Milan and station of Milan Passante railway, run trains to Milan Central, Milan Porta Garibaldi and to Milan belt railway, and in the opposite direction out of Milan, they are high-speed trains, regional fast trains and freight trains.
The two tracks are part of the Milan Central - Rho railway at kilometer 8 + 526, track 1 is driven by train to the east, to Milan, track 2 to the west, outbound Milan.

There are many high-speed trains that pass along the first two tracks of the station of Milano Certosa.
Pass through them for Trenitalia, trains Frecciabianca (White Arrow) line Milano Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova and Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) some for line Milan Central - Turin Porta Nuova, others for Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Nuova. Trains for (or coming from) Milan Central speed at high speed, those direct to and from Milan Porta Garibaldi slow down the rush to exchange track, make the deviate, between the tracks of the Milan Central - Rho to that of Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho shortly after the station in the direction of Milan.
Pass through them also high-speed trains Italo of New Passenger Transport (In Italian, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa and SNCF TGV line Milano Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare de Lyon, like Frecciarossa before mentioned, going in the station at a reduced speed for the deviate and Swiss train EuroCity line Milan Centrale - Simplon Tunnel - Basilea and return, at all speed.

In addition pass fast regional trains line Milano Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova and Milan Central - Domodossola and freight trains to the belt railway of Milan crossed just a few meters from the station of Milano Certosa towards Milan at Bivio Musocco (Musocco Cross), a corridor North West - North East East along Milan intersecting numerous railway lines.

In case of problem with the operation of trains and rarely, the two tracks have been used by trains of the Milan Passante railway that normally stop on the tracks 5 and 6. The platforms of tracks in the central section of the station have a V-cover with glass sheets.

It's exciting to be on the first two tracks of the station and seeing run few meters away trains, in particular those at high-speed, admiring speed, aerodynamic shape and low noise, pride of technology and science, and the colors of their liveries, from red of Frecciarossa, the red white for Frecciabianca and EuroCity, until burgundy of Italo.


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Milano Certosa Station

Milano Certosa Station is a railway station of Milan along the railroad Milano Centrale - Rho at kilometer 8 + 526, the line Milano Porta Garibaldi - Rho just before the fifth kilometer and the line of the Milan Passante railway (in Italian, Passante ferroviario di Milano) at Km 13 + 316 which is stop and ending, whose Km. 0 is Bivio Lambro. The station name is derived from the nearby Garegnano Chartreuse (in Italian, Certosa di Garegnano).

The station is the reference point for transport in the north-west of the city, not served by a subway. It's vital to Musocco, Quartiere Vialba, Quarto (Fourth) Oggiaro, Quartiere Varesina, Garegnano, Roserio, Rho Fiera, Rho and beyond
The station of Milano Certosa is located between the trams and road bridge of Via Filippo Palizzi and the cable-strayed bridge of Viale Certosa Interchange, the latter a few meters after the end of the train tracks.

The station has seven tracks and two pedestrian subways.
The first two tracks are about 400 meters long, the other 350 meters. The tracks 1, 3 and 5 have an easterly direction, to Milan, the tracks 2, 4 and 6 westbound, outside Milan, the seventh track is service. The tracks 1 and 2 belong to railroad Milan Central - Rho, the tracks 3 and 4 to Milan Porta Garibaldi - Rho, the railway track 5 and 6 at the line of Milan Passante railway.
The first track verges along the old house of Via Giovanni Fattori 2, the tenement house and industrial sheds at Via Antonio Mambretti 5 and 9, track 7 is along Via Triboniano.
Clearly visible from the tracks of the station are the clock and the digital thermometer with in the middle a billboard placed on top of a house behind Via Mambretti to Viale Certosa Interchange.

Milano Certosa Station is trains stop of Milan Passante railway suburban line S5 Treviglio - Varese and suburban line S6 Treviglio - Novara.
In the station transit trains of numerous lines of passenger transport: Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Nuova, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare de Lyon, Milan Central - Basel some of which are high-speed lines, Milano Centrale - Domodossola,  Milan Porta Garibaldi - Arona, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Varese, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Luino. Remarkable is also the passage of freight trains.

Trains of Milan Passante railway lines S5 and S6 stop at track 5 and 6 of the station, at track 5 trains S5 originate from Varese and S6 from Novara headed to the city and then to Treviglio and at platform 6 trains of the same lines out of Milan, sometimes the train ride is limited to Pioltello-Limito for Novara trains.
Trains in circulation are modern double-decker Treno Servizio Regionale (Regional Service Train, TSR) evolution of Treno Alta Frequentazione (High Attendance Train, TAF) of Trenord. The cadence of these trains is every half an hour each way, then every quarter of an hour to and from the city section.

Along the tracks 1 and 2 pass through high-speed trains to and from Milan Centrale and to and from Milan Porta Garibaldi, the latter after the station towards Milan, making the deviant, the exchange of tracks, slowing the race or stopping waiting for the green signal while the first ones to Milan Centrale, traveling at high speed.
The high-speed line originates after the station of Milan Certosa towards Rho.
The high-speed trains of line Milan Centrale - Torino Porta Nuova are FS Trenitalia Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) and Frecciabianca (White Arrow), those of the Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Nuova FS Trenitalia Frecciarossa, line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Turin Porta Susa Italo of New Passenger Transport (In Italian, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori).
Some high-speed trains passing in the first two tracks reach foreign locations: SNCF TGV line Milan Porta Garibaldi - Paris Gare De Lyon and Swiss railways SBB CFF FFS EuroCity for line Milan Central - Simplon Tunnel - Basel.

In the tracks 1 and 2, in addition to high-speed trains, pass fast regional trains of line Milan Centrale - Turin Porta Nuova recognizable by coaches with images of Turin city on the classic XMPR livery and of line Milano Centrale - Domodossola, in station go by fast.

Along tracks 3 and 4 transit fast trains of lines Milan Porta Garibaldi - Varese, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Arona, Milan Porta Garibaldi - Luino and not stopping in the station.
Travelers trains are modern Trenord trains, as Vivalto and Treno Alta Frequentazione, any trains passing along the rails 5 and 6.
Some high-speed trains to and from Milan Porta Garibaldi as TGV pass along track 3 and 4 without making the change of track.

Remarkable is also the passage of freight trains as main route the Milan belt railway line which begins at Bivio Musocco (Musocco Cross) shortly after Milan Certosa Station towards Milan, a railroad corridor, between the west and north-west of Milan and the east and north of the city, that crosses many lines.
Freight trains traveling along the first six tracks of the station. Trains are Trenitalia Cargo, NordCargo, Crossrail, Hupac, and others.

At the station you can also see the passage of empty trains for the maintenance plant and train depot in Milan Fiorenza, the largest in Italy with an area of 450,000 square meters, not far from the station of Milano Certosa between the municipality of Milan and Rho or departing from there to reach the destination of the train's departure, I remember among others, the night trains of Trenitalia.

Frequent is the passage of trains throughout the first four tracks in the order of a few minutes for each track.

Platforms are equipped with large panels with clock that inform the incoming train on the track with any delay and monitors that indicate the trains that stop at the station, the loudspeakers that signal in advance with metallic voice the arrival or transit train, platforms have not ticket validation machine but they have metal benches and recycling garbage bins. The platform 5 also has two automatic machines for coffee and snacks.

Two are the subways station, the first inside the station, whose entrance is a validation machine for magnetic tickets, towards Via Varesina crossing Via Triboniano, the most crowded and erroneously indicated by the exit in north direction as Via Mambretti, is also cycling with separate structure in entry and exit. The second subway is 100 meters ahead at the beginning of Via Antonio Mambretti corner Via Giovanni Fattori and exit in Via Triboniano.
The subways are functional but anonymous, tiled mainly in white color conmbined with yellow, blue and gray, the stairs to the underpass and from underpass to the tracks are wide enough, in the subway for each stairway to the tracks there is a yellow validation machine but not for magnetic tickets, although today almost all train and ATM tickets are.

The entire complex of the new station of Milano Certosa, became station of Milan Passante railway, was built slowly from the mid-90s until the early 2000. The station was designed by Angelo Mangiarotti.

Each station platform has a cover in the shape of V with vault consists of a set of glass sheets supported by oval cylindrical pylon, metal voids internally, numbered ending in V, the structure is black, the outer part of the station in the west direction is not covered.
The appearance of the station tracks and platforms mirrors the other stations of Milan Passante railway, the structure along the tracks can be considered modern and aesthetic result was discreet.

The station building is composed of two wings, in the one a prefabricated architecturally modest, reminds of a large box of sheet metal in which there is a Italian Network Railway place, in the other one the ticket not working, the bar overlooking the track 1 which does not sell train tickets with a few tables and two punching machines at the entrance of which one is for magnetic tickets, and a room with a written travel agency that I have never seen open.
A small fee parking of station, at the beginning of Via Mambretti, has been closed for years and it is in a state of neglect, the address of the station should be Via Fattori, a large pedestrian square not well maintained opens to Via Palizzi and to right out of the station towards Via Palizzi the Esselunga supermarket.

Near the railway station, from the side of Musocco and Quarto Oggiaro, distant about 100 meters passing two bus lines, lines 40 and 57, and two tram 12 and 19 covering all directions of the area of the North West of Milan, the bus 57 stops in Via Eritrea and arrives in Largo Cairoli, Milan center, the other 3 ATM lines have stops in Via Filippo Palizzi. From the side of Via Varesina passes the bus 40 and the terminus of the tram in Piazzale Cacciatori delle Alpi, now unused, is located 200 meters from the subway.

The old station was demolished in the late '90s, was where now there is the abandoned parking lot, had a pedestrian catwalk that exceeded it between the beginning of Via Mambretti and Via Triboniano. Before the War the station was called Musocco which until 1923 was an independent municipality, the station is in fact among the oldest in Italy dates back to 1858, when it was built the railway line Milan Centrale - Rho cutting Musocco to Varesina Road, historic road linking Milan to Varese, now Via Varesina one hand on the other Via Antonio Mambretti.

The station of Milano Certosa like other of Milan Passante railway is functional, the tracks where trains stop are separate from those in which the trains pass, the platforms wide enough as their access and tracks well separated from platforms preventing the track crossing.
The trains are frequent, every quarter of an hour but to improve, and recently punctual, very good information of trains that stop at the station with several monitors and panels, speakers sound signaling the arrival or transit trains. The main flaw is the absence of the ticket or a store that takes the place, also the bar is too far away from the tracks of Passante railway and the ticket validation machines are always broken (or are broken) and the number for magnetic ticket insufficient, which company does not verify the possibility that its service can be paid. Discreet cleaning. Aesthetically the side of the tracks is acceptable, bad the station building.

For me the Milan Certosa Station, which is about 13 minutes walk from my house, is the gateway to the world, the start and finish of each trip, small or large, to Milan, going down at Milan Porta Garibaldi to Corso Como and Corso Garibaldi, or hiking trips to the mountains, lakes, hills, valleys, in the Lecco province, the Brianza, Mount Resegone, Tesoro, Grigne, the Valsassina and Lake of Como with the mountains that overlook the lake, exchanging trains in Milan Porta Garibaldi or going to Milan Republic to the Central Station and the same route in reverse arriving at track 6.
How many memories of the trains subway from Via Varesina running, of fast ticket stampings removing the backpack lowering my left shoulder rotating it on the front by opening the zipper on the fly and taking the wallet with the ticket, and climbs stairs two steps at a time. Oh, how many thoughts when you leave the station on the train, pressed in between other travelers in the morning, and which when you return to the track 6 !!

So much irritating waiting for the train in station when you are in a hurry and want to get to a destination when you would like to take the train on time and this does not arrive, so it is nice to spend a half hour or an hour at the station watching and waiting the train passage.

On tracks 1 and 2 it is spectacular is the passage of high speed trains of several companies with their aerodynamic shapes power of technology and their uniforms, those that slow can be observed in the details. Beautiful the liveries of Frecciarossa, Frecciabianca and EuroCity that little they get confused, the wine of Italo and what about the nose of the TGV.
Not be disappointed even by fast regional trains of Trenitalia although they are a bit all the same but they go fast.
Distinctive, loud, colorful and with unequal forms, the passage of freight trains, sometimes when they are discharged I would jump on.
On other tracks pretty good are the new regional trains Trenord, while less beautiful to see the high attendance trains of Passante railway also because they enter at a reduced speed in the station to stop.

You can also watch the rush of travelers who reach the tracks of the railway, their wait, the filling and emptying of the tracks before and after the passage of trains. You can even relax at Bar Gallo in the station and loudspeakers station, train in the rail transit [number of the track], do not get over the yellow line, keep company and are waiting for a new passage, maybe a crossing of high-speed trains.


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Viale Certosa Interchange

Viale Certosa Interchange (or Viale Certosa Junction, in Italian Svincolo Viale Certosa) is freeway linking Viale Certosa exit of A8 and A9 Lakes Motorway and A4 Motorway Torino - Venezia - Trieste to Milan, vital to the area north-west of Milan and throughout the city, interchange is about 1 km and 200 meters long.
Viale Certosa Interchange is a four-lane freeway running with separate lanes that overcome a cable-stayed bridge on the railroad Milano Centrale - Rho and the Milano Porta Garibaldi - Rho near the Station of Milano Certosa.

At the interchange converge vehicles from the two motorways to Milan towards Ghisallo Overpass, a three-lane elevated freeway long about a 1 km to Milan Fair or to Lampugnano.
The first exit of the interchange is before the railway bridge, to Via Stephenson, with a view of UCI Cinemas Certosa, the second one, to Viale Certosa, is after the bridge beside Garegnano Chartreuse and before Ghisallo Overpass going through Piazzale ai Laghi.
In the direction exit from Milan interchange starts after Ghisallo Overpass, with insertion along Via Montefeltro, continuation of Piazzale ai Laghi and Viale Certosa, with two possible entrance spaced by about fifty meters, opposite the newsstand or after the offices of number 6, and from the ramp of Via Angelo Brunetti. After the cable-stayed bridge The four wide lanes of the road bend to the left, with view to the right of an old municipal building, then the interchange continues rectilinearly to the Lakes Motoway or A4 Motorway towards Turin, while a curve to the right leads to A4 for Venice with a further possibility of exit for Roserio.

Thousands of vehicles run through interchange, large signs above the lanes indicate directions, digital panels inform on traffic and travel times, noise barriers were recently installed to mitigate the noise of the vehicles to the palaces of Via Sapri, towards Largo Boccioni and the houses of Via Tommaso Campanella, the speed limit is 70 km/h.

Viale Certosa Interchange has been extended and the railway bridge rebuilt for the World Cup in Italy in 1990.

The interchange name, Viale Certosa, comes from the avenue of the same name where Certosa stands for Garegnano Chartreuse.


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Ghisallo Overpass

Ghisallo Overpass (also Ghisallo Flyover, in Italian Cavalcavia del Ghisallo), is an elevated freeway, a bridge, primary node for the viability of the area north-west of Milan, which allows vehicles to and from Viale Certosa Interchange (also Viale Certosa Junction, in Italian Svincolo Viale Certosa) to overcome Viale Certosa and Via Gallarate; vehicles transiting through Viale Certosa Interchange come (or are directed) from the A8 and A9 Lakes Motorway or A4 Motorway Torino - Venezia - Trieste called also Serenissima.
The overpass is about one kilometer long, three-lane separate for each direction.

The flyover, here described in the direction of Milan, starts next to Garegnano Charterhouse after Viale Certosa Interchange at the end of Piazzale ai Laghi, continues rectilinearly for about five hundred meters surpassing Viale Certosa and Via Gallarate parallel to Viale del Ghisallo, then with a big bend turns left overcoming Piazzale Kennedy towards Viale Alcide De Gasperi and the Milanocity Fair along Monte Stella (Mount Stella), also Montagnetta di San Siro (Little mountain of San Siro). Before the bend a branch of the overpass down moderately to Lampugnano in the underpass of Via Sant'Elia with two-way traffic and separate lanes, while an exit more right is for Viale del Ghisallo and Piazzale John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The overpass is crossed by thousands vehicles every day, it was recently established the electronic speed control.

The overpass was built in the late 50's when the connection between Milan and motorways was directly from Piazzale ai Laghi. The flyover was designed with two lanes no separate and end in Piazzale Kennedy.
In 1990 for the World Cup of Football in Italy the road entrance to Milan underwent a clear change either for the Interchange or for the Overpass. The overpass was rebuilt, expanded, extended with more entrances and exits directions.

The name of the overpass, Ghisallo, comes from a hill in the Province of Como at 750 meters high in municipality (comune) of Magreglio, connecting Valassina with the top of the Larian Triangle, known for the Sanctuary of Madonna del Ghisallo place of worship for many cyclists.


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